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Unit 8 Students’ book: Vocabulary A. Guessing the meanings of words and phrases send out (light) in all directions understand fully are greater than surrounded a place to live in make difficult to see break suddenly into small pull up, with some effort very small opening in the pieces skin through which sweat may pass discovering, learning about B. Looking up words in a dictionary clearly marking a person or thing as different from others striking, out of the ordinary, amazing to see thing in nature as it appears or is experienced by the senses right of holding (land) very rough, stormy likely, tending to, accustomed to (here) (the amount of) rainfall, snow etc. which has fallen onto the ground break up into small particles or pieces, come apart small pieces like fine grains a heavy silver-white metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures and is used in scientific instruments such as thermometers 水银 upset, disturb padding (here) Workbook: TEXT I Comprehension B. Reference version: We learn from the astronauts that if we look down from space, we will find the most conspicuous/outstanding characteristic of Earth to be the thick layer of ice which is Antarctica, which sends light over the southernmost part of the southern hemisphere. One hundred and sixty years ago, however, nobody had ever seen this enormous continent, and had certainly not walked on it. Even today whether we can occupy it or not is still uncertain. Further, we know relatively little about it. The differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic are greater than the similarities. (or, There are more differences than similarities between the Arctic and Antarctic. ) The Arctic is tightly surrounded by the continents of Europe, America and Asia where there are permanent populations; whereas the Antarctic is unconnected to anywhere else, separated from the nearest land by vast areas of the worlds roughest seas. Under such conditions, a person could only stand for a few seconds, and that was by